Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-12-21
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

ablrd confederate soiCi-rs.
 A cyclone visited M,shakie. ]. T.. r- cen'!y, doing considerable damage.
 A man near Macon. G.. p!owed up in his fir Id a tin kettle coft ,ining $ ooo in gold,
 4 cyclone visited 5 uihein California recently, destroying church and Ri ing two or three persons.
 The Wichitl, K,r.. boom mas bust, d and property Is selling at oae-hah .ts former pnoe, and no buyers.
 Two hundred and fifty real est,ie dealers have gwen up business in Los Angeies during the past tour weeks.
 Oth St h, the tolorlCu, mur erer and jpurnaiIstic torger, Is i1 trouble sgsn, this tune, in Pusourg. Pruhs,!sanis.
 All the toi ors of St Pc,srsbu-g have
 been summoned by the press censor and
 instfucted to adopt a mooera'e ,orc re- gndine Germany.
 A glass turned up at K osuk, l.,
 recently II the s.hap- of yau s to!. U pen wager he Gsvoured half a Ian ? chimney and seemed 10 relish t as a sweet morsel
 The prohibition elections of this year show net l ss of 47 468 vo,es, x.th a l clear indication m sour states oi return
 to demands for .egisl1'i n uf kiEd ! ~hIch my bc praoitc9iy sn;o cef. S.S c Andail, lawyer of Troy, Ne~
 York, qIarrel-d ~i,h hls wife a,s u,
 money matters, and shot her, then slot and killed his ID. ther- r-lsw and .t,E- d ,u. .hlvr, and then tlrw ut what li,lle bralps were m Ii, own head. CiviI ser.ice l. booming in Nrs Yo'k, in one of is ssped>. O. one day 500 applicants for positi ms attended an .x- aminatinn for the customs servict. This is ssiito be the isrs.ot class ths, ever , took papers at single examination. l. IS claimed that $ per cert of the vo,ers If D.k, ta will have ,i sned the ptt ton for the admis>i ,a of the terri
 tory as a whole cy ,hr time the conveL-
 ton, which IS to consider thc hject.
 meets a, Aoe'de-n.
 OIte a sensation has beer created at San Deeo by the oisoo,ery tha, the Chinese gre working into Is county
 by way oi Lower Ceilornia. Tor some months pas, the Chinesr, in larger CT smaller numbers have been smuggeld into that State. using San Diego as a gateway.
 The New York World pays rs pint
 CTS every week S6.o o, and salaries Tn its home eff e. exclusive of what IS paId ns correspondents on the outside, Si4,- 900, add ,o ,hls ihe cost of white paper,
 ink, postagr, etc., and telegraph service, and ,he weekly cost of pr ntiug the New York World i, not much less than 35,- 900.
 X novel indu.try has been :tsred ty boys n the Santa Monica mJuntsins Tn C,liiurnia They catch raitlesnakes by means fl sip roose of cord, box them up ard t.ke them 70 Los Angeles, where they sell them. The Chinrse are the purchasers. They use them as medicine and the snakes sell for from 5o cents to ST each. l. IS said ,ha, the Chinamen
 handle them iearlessly and never get bitten.
 X preacher m Fleming county, Kv., borrowed a suit fl clothes to wear while biptl,i1g a convert. Somewhere in the su, there was deck of cards which ,he owner of the clothes forgo, 10 take out and while the paIson and his convert Wcre in the water the cards began 10 a at around them, to the gr-a, amaz>- ment of the sp'c,stors. As respects ,he population of the United States, the figures "6o ooo.ooo" no longer tells the whole story. The population of the states ard ,errrioies
 on June I. Inst was ,,6So 900 in round
 numbers, and will be nearly 6I so,.,ooo
 on the Ist of JInuary. At the presen:
 rate Of inc'ease onr popula ion wiil be s, 7,o.ooo at the besinriag of the neIt
 century.
 A telegram from Winchester, K.n-
 lucky, says tha. the feud b,tween the
 Adam and Cissell parties opened again last Sunday nj ,ht m SoCk Castle county